Efficient Motion Control Strategy for Drone Swarms

The global drone market is growing rapidly as drones are being utilized for surveillance, transportation, search and rescue, military, etc. Similarly, the demand for drone swarms is also increasing both in the defense and commercial sectors. However, controlling a drone swarm is a challenging problem that requires a robust communication network, advanced management algorithms, and cutting-edge technology. In this paper, we focus on the drone swarm control strategy by transforming the drone swarm into a structured formation through abstraction in a hierarchical way so that a swarm is divided into subgroups where each subgroup has a leader to process the calculations and broadcast required information to the other sub-group members. This results in the ultimate coherency and alignment of the swarm. Our results have shown that the structured transformation of swarm architecture is much more efficient than the general structure regarding the number of required messages.